Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>Joni sang "Long Black Veil" with Johnny Cash on his TV show 

Yesterday I found this, in an interview with Johnny Cash
in Life Magazine from 1994  - 

> LM: Country music had a spectacular breakout in the 
> late 1960s. Some say that the eye of the hurricane was 
> your house.

> JC: "In 1968, '69, when I was doing my TV show, we'd 
> invite singers and guitar players over for dinner. Afterward, 
> everyone had to take the hot seat and do at least two songs. 
> The most memorable night was in '69. Kris Kristofferson sang 
> "Me and Bobby McGee," Bob Dylan sang "Lay Lady Lay," 
> Joni Mitchell sang "Both Sides Now," Graham Nash sang 
> "Marrakesh Express," and Shel Silverstein sang "A Boy 
> Named Sue"; all in the same night. People had never heard 
> those songs, and the very next week, when I played San Quentin 
> prison, I took "A Boy Named Sue" with me."

All the best
PaulC

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